Brie Blakeman, CEO, CBCC-KA, CPDT-KA

She/Her

Organizational Leadership, Human-Centered Systems Thinking, Cooperative Care/Husbandry, Behavior Modification

Certified Canine Behavior Consultants Portland
Certified Canine Behavior Consultants Portland
Certified Canine Behavior Consultants Portland

Brie Blakeman is an executive leader, Certified Canine Behavior Consultant (CBCC-KA), Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA), Founder & CEO of Noble Woof Dog Training. She is an animal welfare leader, educator, and entrepreneur passionate about helping people, animals, and organizations thrive.

Over the past decade, Brie has built a reputation for combining organizational leadership with deep expertise in canine behavior, Human-centered systems thinking, and animal welfare. As Founder of Noble Woof, she grew the company from a solo training practice into a multi-service behavior and education organization serving the Portland metropolitan area.

Brie oversees all aspects of organizational leadership, including strategic planning, finance, human resources, operations, regulatory compliance, community partnerships, and staff development. She is particularly passionate about building high-trust cultures where both people and animals can thrive. Her leadership philosophy centers on communication, accountability, transparency, vulnerability and creating systems that empower others to succeed.

While Brie leads the organization's strategy and team development, she also maintains an active behavior consulting practice and has served more than 3,500 dogs and their families. Although her background includes extensive work with aggression, reactivity, and fear-related behavior, her current area of specialization is cooperative care; improving canine stress and anxiety during veterinary or grooming procedures. Her knowledge has been shaped through years of mentorship with former marine mammal trainer, Laura Monaco Torelli of Animal Behavior Training Concepts. Brie’s work focuses on helping dogs build confidence, agency, and resilience while supporting caregivers and professionals in creating lower-stress handling outcomes. Most recently, Brie has enjoyed stepping into the role of teacher’s assistant for Torelli’s Karen Pryor Academy Cooperative Care course, Husbandry at Home.

Before founding Noble Woof, Brie worked in the Training and Behavior Department at the Oregon Humane Society, where she educated adopters, trained volunteers, and conducted behavior assessments. That experience provided exposure to the operational realities of public animal services, including intake flow, adoption systems, resource constraints, and the importance of aligning service delivery with community needs. It continues to inform how she thinks about scalable systems, cross-functional coordination, and operational decision-making under constraint.

A frequent speaker and educator, Brie has appeared as a recurring behavior expert on KATU's Afternoon Live, presented at the Western Veterinary Conference, and served as a keynote speaker for Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s Science Pub.

Prior to her work in animal welfare, Brie spent more than a decade in a vibrant career as a professional circus artist, mindfulness educator, and entrepreneur. Those experiences continue to shape her belief that meaningful learning and lasting change emerge through trust, vulnerability, and authentic connection.

Brie lives with her fiancé Caralyn and their two dogs Yuka and Coltrane. When not developing Noble Woof, she enjoys Skijoring, Rally Obedience, and Trick Training with her canine companions. Her ten-year-old husky, Yuka, has earned Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert Trick Dog titles, has her NACSW ORT and NW1 titles, and has appeared in commercial work (featured on our TV & Media page).

Brie’s greatest teachers have and will always be the dogs and humans she has the honor of working with every day.

Brie credits her knowledge and work to Susan Friedman, Karen Pryor, Laura Monaco Torrelli, Leslie McDevitt, Suzanne Clothier, Jean Donaldson, Tanya Roberts, Donna Hill, Emma Parsons, Emily Larson, Annika McDade, Dr. Chris Pachel, Hannah Branigan, Grisha Stewart, Ken Ramirez, Pamela Reid, Patricia B. McConnell and many more!

Credentials:

  • Certified Behavior Consultant (CBCC-KA), through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers

  • Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA) through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers

  • Aggression In Dogs Master Course Graduate

  • Bachelors of Arts in Business Development, Collaborative Design and Interdisciplinary Arts